Princeton, Yale, the University of California, Irvine, and others are increasing enrollment of Pell-grant-eligible students in an initiative backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Ninety-six of the schools reported a 3.5% gain in those students.

Stanford University is making changes in how it calculates undergraduate students’ financial aid to exclude the value of home equity, acknowledging that many families may be house rich but cash poor and see college as out of reach.

A law professor and an Asian-American politician are suing the University of California for data they believe would reveal that the state university system is illegally using race in its admissions process.

U.S. enrollment of international students declined for the second year in a row, sending waves of unease across American colleges and universities, which see students from abroad as a buffer against the falling number of U.S. high-school students graduating each year.

The university has created a division to study the science of mining the tidal wave of digital information that floods our lives. More than 300 universities offer some type of data major at a time when companies like Google can’t hire enough specialists.

The rules will narrow the definition of sexual assault that schools are required to adjudicate, restrict eligible cases to those that occur on campus and require that accused students be allowed to cross-examine their accusers.

Three weeks into a trial gauging whether Harvard University discriminates against Asian-American applicants, eight current and former students came to the school’s defense, saying they supported the university’s consideration of race in admissions decisions

Scientists from China’s military are significantly expanding research collaboration with scholars from the U.S. and other technologically advanced countries, at times obscuring their affiliation from their hosts, according to a new research report and interviews with academics.

Liberal-arts majors often fare better in avoiding underemployment than those who pursue more vocationally geared majors, such as degrees in parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies and homeland security.

A guidebook used to assess the Harvard University class that started in fall 2014 provides perhaps the most detailed look so far at exactly how the school weighs a high-school student’s accomplishments and background.

After increasing for decades, the real cost of attending both public and private college is flat and in some cases even declined this year, as colleges compete for fewer students by giving away more scholarships.

Harvard University’s admissions dean defended the school’s recruitment of prospective students in the first day of a landmark trial accusing Harvard of discriminating against Asian-American applicants.